2022 Forbes Lecture - Legal Life Histories and the Creation of Legal Fields

21/06/2022

2022 Forbes Lecture will be presented on Tuesday, 28 June 2022 at 5.15pm in Court 13A – Legal Life Histories and the Creation of Legal Fields, by Dr Susan Bartie (University of Tasmania), chaired by Professor Mark Lunney, Junior Vice President of the Society. Dr Bartie will examine the role that legal life history can play in investigating how legal fields are created and sustained, and how they change over time.

The Forbes Society is grateful to Chief Justice Bell for use of Supreme Court facilities. No registration is necessary for in person attendance. For online attendance please register here – the email confirmation of registration will contain your link to view.

Members are invited to renew membership for 2022/2023. The Society is dedicated to studying and documenting the history of Australian law. Benefits of membership include timely notification of legal history events and opportunities to obtain discounts on publications from time to time, published or arranged by the Society. New member applications are welcomed. A renewal/application form is available here. The renewal/application should be completed and returned to the address on the form or by email to membership@forbessociety.org.au.

The Society encourages and promotes research into Australian legal history via the Francis Forbes Fund. There is provision for a donation on the membership renewal form, or a separate form for donations is available here and on the web site forbessociety.org.au.

For an abstract of Dr Bartie’s lecture and details of projects supported in recent years, please click here.